Creator Packaged Goods

HIGHER

Maybe higher was outdoor brand coded all along. Feels right

Food

There are good ways to respond to data leaks.. this isn’t one of them

Did i say data leak? I meant to say storing sensitive data in a public datastore lol..

aichannel

I’m surprised so many people in China use VPN just to access ChatGPT still

The CT boys are trying to bring AI agents coins back in vogue

This goes without saying. 

I will never lau-nch a coi-n. 

(Mispelling to prevent bots)

Nor will my new CMO @vibemo_cmo

Riley Brown

The CT boys are trying to bring AI agents coins back in vogue

https://x.com/rileybrown_ai/status/1948950465024233890?s=46&t=oEoCChjory8M1XLXotHNUg

Both these statements can be true. I still think there are niche cases of abduction for pieter’s argument, but it’s enough to make you cautious

Very doable. China is very friendly for foreigners; we call every foreigner 老外, which is a very friendly term. The cost of living is low, including rent, groceries, and transportation. Something that costs $20 in the US only costs $2 in China, and usually of higher quality.

I love China and I'm probably the most pro-China of any of my friends but this simply isn't true

You're at risk as a white American (or even European) foreigner to be plucked off the street and end up being used in China's prisoner swaps

Not that that's highly probable but it's

@levelsio

If you have $1M, move to China, it feels like you have $10M. The USD is powerful, but even more so when spent abroad. https://t.co/3lPqxnOtkf

Damon Chen

Both these statements can be true. I still think there are niche cases of abduction for pieter’s argument, but it’s enough to make you cautious
https://x.com/levelsio/status/1949060577914913070?s=46&t=oEoCChjory8M1XLXotHNUg

https://x.com/damengchen/status/1948974798673248286?s=46&t=oEoCChjory8M1XLXotHNUg

marketing @privy | 2x founder | ✍️ author digitalmavericks.xyz paragraph.com/@debbie | 👩🏻‍💻 occasional vibe coder + renaissance woman | 🇸🇬 in 🇺🇸

pugson exists on a spectrum. we are all a bit pugson but it can be dangerous to go full pugson

ClickCast

HOW TO GAME THE LEADERBOARD

As some of you know, I like doing experiments/giveaways with my weekly leaderboard rewards. The most challenging experiment I ever did was looking for accounts with <100 followers last month. I read over 4,000 casts and still didn't meet my initial goal.

@zenshortz is a perfect example of the kind of account I was trying to find. Yesterday, @zenshortz replied to my cast for the first time in /privacy about wearables. This kicked off a thoughtful exchange and sharing his video content, which happened to align with my interests.

I've been posting on Farcaster for just about two months now. I know how it feels to cast into the purple void and to wander uninvited into people's replies, unsure if anyone will respond. A lot of people never did, and that's perfectly okay. Nobody owes anyone their attention.

But when people are willing to take a chance on interacting with you, they can transform your experience on Farcaster in wonderful ways. I've been deeply surprised by the bonds I've formed over a short period here. Each one was sparked by a moment of sincere connection.

I never set out to gain a "following" (still not a goal, probably will never be), and the only "points" I think about here are my internal ones:

- Did I feel good after scrolling?
- Did I learn anything new?
- Did I interact with someone interesting to me?
- Did I find inspiration for my work?
- Did I push myself outside of my comfort zone?

If the answer to any of those questions becomes a no, I'll leave. But I'm still here. I've found "engagement" to be a surprising byproduct of focusing on the joys of learning, experimenting, and connecting. I truly cannot recommend any "strategy" other than that for showing up here.

Now let me put this in another, more urgent way.

This life we get to have is so precious. We cannot know for sure how many years, months, days, hours we have left to live. What we do to fill this unknown amount of time matters. Over an average lifespan, people will spent an estimated 6.5 years of their life scrolling social media.

The last thing I want is for someone to see my account on the leaderboard this week and try to reverse-engineer a formula from it. All it says is what happened to work in this particular week. The algorithm changes all the time because everything here is, delightfully, a grand experiment. Trying to game it is like trying to stand on top of wind.

I've found the only ground you can firmly stand on here in this sufficiently decentralized sandbox is... yourself. If you're a goofball, be a goofball. If you're a grump, be grump. If you're into an esoteric topic that only a few people in the world could possibly be into, be into that.

And if you're not really sure who you are? FAFO. :)

The right way to game any leaderboard that's been created by others, in my opinion, is to play a different game entirely. One that is scored in the depths of your soul. An infinite game. "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes" is a saying I often repeat to myself as a reminder.

If this resonated with you, I recommend also reading a reflection I wrote after my initial month on Farcaster. The title of it is "Most People Don't Know How to Be Interesting." It's the first link below.

And if you want to reply here with your honest thoughts, please do. It might be the start of a real connection.

🤍 

#1: First month reflection
https://farcaster.xyz/patriciaxlee.eth/0xb41aa7f2

#2: The <100 experiment
https://farcaster.xyz/patriciaxlee.eth/0x3c68d4e6

#3: My exchange with @zenshortz:
https://farcaster.xyz/zenshortz/0xa2081e60

TLDR for gaming the leaderboard:

- be you
- there is no leaderboard we love you

Finally understand subagents. It’s ways to compartmentalize different roles for different code functions

Think of the chaotic mess your Netflix algorithm looks like with a whole household sharing and using it BUT NOW you have ways to switch between sub accounts to get better personalized feeds

I still chuckle inside when I listen to Chinese people reference apps as A-P-P in regular conversation

new way to find friends based on taste: who else is bidding on the same casts

new way to find love triangles: who is outbidding me on the same casts

Taste Buds

Quick home cooked meal

- sliced beef
- pickled shredded carrots
- Lao Gan ma
- egg crepe

Made for a good protein-style burrito. Will comment that the egg crepe makes for a very fragile burrito wrap

higher-athletics

3/20 managed to get in a morning weight session before hitting the coffee shop

Retro platforming, puzzle games, RPGs, and other casual plays. I dabble in web design and like to talk about it. /webdesign

Everyone has instant access to a casino, opium den and brothel on their phones, and we wonder why people are mentally ill and the society is more unstable 

Only fools willfully ignore the impact information diets have on our psychic metabolism and well being

Ironic thing is that people who live and work around the Vegas strip spend as little time as possible on the strip. Work there, come home, enjoy the rest of your day

Perhaps there’s a lesson in there

The casting will continue until degradation improves

The coining will continue until morale improves

The bidding will continue until collection balloons

How did my X feed get taken over by Sydney Sweeney in a jeans commercial?

The only problem with touching grass in NYC…
is the rats. Icks

Ngl I've been in China for a month and somehow I haven't seen a single rat or cockroach

Barista in the morning, AI engineer by day, and parent (with @shiwen) by night ||
Host at /clickcast /cpg

Jason

@jachian